Harvest association Personification of Autumn (Currier & Ives Lithograph, 1871) John Everett Millais, "Autumn Leaves"Autumn's association with the transition from warm to cold weather, and its related status as the season of the primary harvest, has dominated its themes and popular In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains and wheat that ripen at this Most ancient cultures featured autumnal celebrations of the harvest, often the most important on their Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full moon harvest festival of "tabernacles" (huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance) There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of autumnally ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh This view is presented in John Keats' poem To Autumn where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of 'mellow fruitfulness' 范文二: Autumn in Countryside It gradually turns The sunlight is no longer so strong and the cicadas have stopped The hot summer went by at The favorite season in the year is Everywhere we can see the scene of bumper crops: on the fields is golden rice,on the trees are ripe The farmers faces are full of They are now expecting a good harvest through a summer's hard The autumn evening is especially When the setting sun goes slowly down to the west, the sky over the mountains is covered with red rays of evening sunlight, which shines upon the blue sky and floating clouds, just as the maple leaves fall onto the It is getting cool at The wind blows, the moonlight shines on the ground,the frogs croak and insects chirp in the Such a situation will make you forget all the unhappy things in the I love the beautiful